Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.